Jackson-Brown, Angela
Summary: "Opal Pruitt is just about to turn 18 in the oppressively hot summer of 1936. She works hard at her job, takes care of her beloved Granny, and dreams about boys with her cousin Lucille. The young black teenager's journey to adulthood will be forged in fire, though, as the Ku Klux Klan attacks her Colored Town neighborhood and she endures a vicious beating at the hands of an unknown white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2021
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Summary: Poor yet resilient, the boy lives in the shadows with his aunt Libby and uncle Darren, folk who stubbornly make their way in a society that does not understand or want them. Always on the move across the South, living a life of late-night exits and narrow escapes, one step ahead of the law. But everything is about to change. The boy will be turning sixteen, and he will need to understand his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONCramer, W. Dale.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Jeremy Prine's father was killed in a mining accident when Jeremy was only a child. now his mother has passed away, leaving him with an odd request. Jeremy is to find his father's brother Aiden, a hardrock miner, and stay with him, regardless of Aiden's wishes. So Jeremy joins the ranks, doing physical labor with rough, complex miners. He must trust in God to give him the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2004
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Summary: In a small Georgia mill town during the depression, four misfits form a group that revolves around a deaf-mute whose sole companion has been sent to an insane asylum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2004
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Summary: The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1982
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Lee, Harper.
Summary: Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers/Caedmon 2006
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Summary: With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1960
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Summary: Seven years after being abandoned with her little brother at a Tennessee campground, fifteen-year-old Tessa Lee learns that her mother has been living two hours away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2006
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Summary: The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1995
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Summary: "Annie Stoddard was the smartest girl in her small public high school in Georgia, but now that she's at Carter, it feels like she's got 'Scholarship Student' written on her forehead. Bea Powers put aside misgivings about attending college in the South as a biracial student intake part in Carter's Justice Scholars program. But even within that rarefied circle of people trying to change the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: The focus of her brother's obsessive love from the time of her birth, Morgan Lee communicates with her older sibling through a secret language, but when she begins to explore other friendships, her brother becomes increasingly disturbed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2003
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Summary: Abandoned by her mother and raised by her loving but religiously zealous grandmother, 16-year-old Heavenly Faith Simms (H.F. for short) has never felt like she belonged anywhere. When she finds her mother's address in a drawer, she and her best friend, Bo, an emotionally repressed gay boy, hit the road in Bo's scrap heap of a car and head south. Their journey through the heart of the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alyson Books 2001